A Waterford based IT service firm, HCS, says it will spend €3.2m on doubling its headcount to 60 people.
The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) has unveiled plans for investment programmes in five regional cities across the country.
This has been a bad year for stocks. The Iseq index of Irish shares is in a bear market, having fallen more than 20pc this year as investors react to persistent inflation, an energy shock and supply chain disruption in the global economy.